Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!inebriae!bill From: bill@inebriae.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 3B2 Device table wierdness Summary: Cockpit problem installing non-AT&T drives Keywords: 3B2 Message-ID: <580@inebriae.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 90 01:50:25 GMT References: <1284@ssbn.WLK.COM> Reply-To: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. and Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 87 In article <1284@ssbn.WLK.COM> I wrote: [ stuff about showing hard disk 0 as HD10, drive 1 as NULL ] >Please email (since this is so odd) and if others want to know >too, I'll post the answer. Thanks! Brian Kantor (brian@ucsd.EDU) got me started, and I got several replies, so I figured I'd summarize and maybe keep some others out of a dead end street that has my footprints in it. Thanks to all! :Date: Mon, 5 Feb 90 09:20:56 EST :From: Mike Pearce :Subject: 3B2/310 devices showing up as NULL : :I assume that you have 2 72MB drives and not a 10MB within you 3B2. :If this is true, then I know what you have done, I think :-), :Firstly, You have used drives that were NOT used previously in a 3B2. :Secondly, you have formated these drives with the Idtools package. :If this is what you did, then you didn't enter the correct drive type :when you entered all of the data to format the drive. :I think you must of entered '0 or 1' instead of '8'. :If you don't know what I am talking about please talk to the person who :formated your 72MB drives. Otherwise If you need a walk-though then I will :give you the steps you need to go though to correct the problem. : :I had the same problem when I added a second 72MB drive to my 310. It :came out as NULL and then as a Floppy device until I fixed the drive type. :The information about drive types, I found out, is within the 3B2 :maintainance manual that comes with the Idtools. : :Hope this helps. : : Mike Pearce att!attdso!tws4!map Mike Pearce had a perfect bulls eye, what he describes is *exactly* what I had done. Brian got me prowling around, and Mike confirms what I thought I figured out. :From: ram%attcan@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu :Subject: Re: 3B2 Device table wierdness :Date: Mon, 5 Feb 90 12:11:49 EST : :Try shutting down the system to firmware mode (either use shutdown -i5 -g0 -y) :or do a normal shutdown and hit the reset button as soon as the system passes :diagnostics. : :You will be asked for a name of a program to edit, at which point type :"filledt". This will re-write the equipped devices table for the appropriate :devices. : :Regards : :------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Richard A Meesters | : Technical Support Specialist | Insert std.logo here : AT&T Canada | : | "Waste is a terrible thing : ATTMAIL: ....attmail!rmeesters | to mind...clean up your act" : UUCP: ...att!attcan!ram | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Richard describes, and then Mark (below) brings up an interesting "feature". I found a command, edittbl that will take some text and make it into a file suitable for filledt and even put it in /dgn for you. I will ASSume that this means that you could invent some names for subdevices and build your own table to describe a Frammis IV disk drive, Fortesite IX tape drive, etc. Then you could filledt with that and have something other than those devices named for you. :Date: 5 Feb 90 09:24:41 EST (Mon) :From: fenicks!mjm@uunet.UU.NET (Mark J. Muthig) : :The command you need to run. I believe, is 'filledt(8)'. It usually runs :automatically at power-up, but I do remember some problems in the past. : :Hope this helps, : : Mark J. Muthig : Phoenix Telecom, Inc., 500 Helendale Road, Rochester, NY 14609 : UUCP: uunet!fenicks!mjm : {allegra,cornell,kodak,rutgers,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!phoenix!mjm : ATTMAIL: attmail!phxmail!mjm VOICE: 716/654-7030 FAX: 716/654-7653 Again, many thanks to all and particularly for the prompt responses! -- Bill Kennedy {texbell,att,cs.utexas.edu,sun!daver}!ssbn!bill bill@ssbn.WLK.COM or attmail!ssbn!bill